Graduate Students of Dept. of Mathematics (SKKU) received the Best Awards at the Startups Competition Using AI
- 자연과학대학
- Hit2051
- 2019-09-04
Do-hee Jeong and Sa-joon Park, graduate students of Dept. of Mathematics (SKKU) received the best awards at the finalists of the startups competition using weather data analysis artificial intelligence. The competition was held on July 18 at COEX (Seoul), under joint supervision of Korea Artificial Intelligence Association (KORAIA), Daejeon Regional Meteorological Administration and Daejeon Center for Creative Economy & Innovation. A total of 21 teams have challenged and 10 teams have finalized.
The competition was organized to discover new models of artificial intelligence and ideas for solving social problems through meteorological big data analysis. Seung-hee Son, the head of Daejeon Regional Meteorological Administration, emphasized the creation of value through the use of weather data by participating in the finals.
Byung-hoon Kim, chairman of KORAIA, also suggested that a new market could be opened by analyzing weather data. Kim said, “We can create synergy by combining weather data, which is a representative field of public data, with existing industries. If the weather data analysis task announced today leads to actual results, we expect new business fields to be created.”
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